Chute for loading and unloading live stock, especially hogs and sheep



W. H. McGINN'IS AND C. H. BAXTER.

CHUTE FOR LOADING A-NO UNLOADING LIVESTOCK, ESPECIALLY HOGS AND SHEEP.

' APPLICATION HLED SEPT. 11. 1916.

1,332, 1 32. Patented Feb. 24, 1920.

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APPLICATION FILED SEPT. ll, I916.

Patented Feb. 24,1920.

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GHUTE FOR LOADING AIiD 'uNLoADING LIVE s'rooK, ESPECIALLY Hoes Ami SHEEP.

Application filed September 11, 1916.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, WILLIAM H. MOGIN NIS and CHARLES H. BAXTER, citizens of the United States, residing at Powhattan, in the county of Brown and State of Kansas, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Chutes for Loading and Unloading Live Stock, Especially Hogs and Sheep, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates toa chute for load ing and unloading live stock, especially hogs and sheep.

It may be employed either in connection with a car or wagon.

The main object of the invention is a device of this kind which will facilitate loading or unloading, reduce the amount of time and work usually required, and automatically guide the stock in the proper direction. 7 1

The invention consists in the novel fea tures of construction hereinafter pointed out, and shown in the drawings, in which Figure 1 is a side elevation, the chute being in normal, or pen closing position.

Fig. 2 is a similar View the chute being drawn outwardly to deliver or receive stock to or from a wagon.

Fig. 3 is a plan view, the parts being in the position shown in Fig. 2.

Fig. 4; is a vertical transverse section 0 the line 4t4 of Fig.2.

In constructing the device we employ three main parts, a suitable rectangular frame 1, a chute slidable horizontally and longitudinally in the frame, and an incline 3 adapted to lead to the chute 2, when the latter is in proper receiving position, the

incline 3 being covered, or closed, by the chute 2when the chute is in normal position. V

The frame 1 may be constructed in any desired manner, of wood or metal and includes two parallel fence sections 4 which serve as an inlet or passageway to or from a suitable pen or inclosiue, not shown.

The upper part of theframe carries a suitabletrack 5. The chute 2 is supported from this track by hangers 6. This trackway and the hangers may be of the jtype usually employed for barn doors, thetracks being duplicated on opposite sides of the frame 1. V

i Specification of Letters Patent.

1 clears the back of the chute.

Patented Feb. 24:, 1920.

Serial No. 119,436.

frame 1.

A description of the operation of unloading a wagon by means of our chute will make the operation and use of these various parts clear.

The chute being in the position shown in Fig. 1 the wagon is driven back of the chute and through the frame, being stopped so that the rear end of the wagon just The chute is then moved back along its overhead track and the rear end wedges between the blocks 11, which automatically stop it at the proper place.

The end gate of the wagon is removed and the hinged gate 10, which will normally lie on the chute floor, is swung through the opening 10*.in the side 8 and drops into the wagon. This opens a clear passage for the stock in one direction only, from the wagon to, the chute and from the latter down the incline 3 and into the penor in .closure.

As soon as the loading is accomplished the chute is shifted into normal position,

the Wagon entrance, a horizontally movable,

chute having an open end and an opening in one side, a gate for closing the side opening and hinged to swing on a horizontal axis, the gate and opening affording a path of travel at right angles to the path through the chute, and means for suspending the chute from the said upper tracks and retaining it above the runway when in inoperathie posi- A ENToIiFICE tion, the chute being movable in 'a given In testimony whereof we alfix our signalplane longitudinally of the structure, across tures' in the presence of two Witnesses.

the Wagon entrance, to operative position, WILLIAM H. MGGINNIS.

and means located on that side of the wagon CHARLES H. BAXTER. I

entrance opposite the runway for limiting Witnesses: the movernentpt the chute longitudinally JOSEPH H. KINNEAR, and retaining 1t 1n operative position. ROBERT ANDREWS. 

